Brooklyn memories, Castle Diner pieces, satire, memoir-inspired fiction, and dark comic turns from JK Savoy.
Broke and crashing on a friend's floor, Kenny digs a thrift-store suit out of the wreckage to bluff his way back into 1974 corporate America.
After months sleeping in a commune hallway, Park Slope's scrappiest mover finally lands a place of his own — a converted pantry he calls paradise.
Kenny's moving crew babysits a forgetful, fire-prone grande dame through the gutting of Brooklyn's grand Hotel Margaret.
A cab driver's hunch on the Brooklyn Bridge convinces a corporate man to walk away and chase the borough's strange, take-charge magic.
Two beat cops wander into a hippie coffee house, accept a free cup, and lose themselves in quadraphonic Pink Floyd.
From his Prospect Park writing bench, Kenny watches gentrification chain the doors on the Brooklyn that raised him.
1968, the graveyard shift at a Jersey diner: a young night manager and a decorated WWI vet spar over coffee and the war calling them both.
Behind the counter of a 24-hour greasy spoon, a paper-hatted dreamer spins protest-era 45s while a war hero rails at the hippies on his jukebox.
Electrocuted on the toilet, Denis wakes in a cosmic skybox where a booming voice claims to oversee everything that ever was.
A man frozen by his own overthinking shuffles across Central Park, arguing with the ghosts of mystics and Nietzsche in his head.
Soaked in a SoHo thunderstorm and egged on by a philosopher cabbie, a restless rich man resolves to walk away from Manhattan's whole charade.
In a theocratic near-future, patrons of a SoHo bar bet on how long a fish lasts in a cocktail — until one skeptic refuses to play along.
A coke-fueled, tush-obsessed playboy and his mirror-loving girlfriend break down at a Jersey diner, right before fate lands its one-two punch.
A bestselling loudmouth environmentalist goes live on a friend's vlog — not knowing the scorned host is loading both barrels on air.
Told by Dasher himself: a jaded reindeer's mutinous account of a boozy Santa and the glowing-nosed runt suddenly leading the team.
A gleefully unhinged polemic that puts the humble '…' on trial as literature's sneakiest little tyrant.
A burned-out flight instructor boards a Miami-bound jet and realizes his worst-ever student might just be in the cockpit.
Two friends argue the perfect record for romance — and a cheapskate's AA-meeting seduction unravels in a skipping, thunderstruck disaster.